Thursday, June 28, 2012

Our Associate Director, Cathy Blake, is
looking for an intern for the summer. This would be a 20 – 40
hour per week position in our office in Palo Alto and she is
looking for someone with excellent CAD skills to help with
projects.

Thank you,

Virginia Wilson

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The University Architect/Campus Planning and Design Office is seeking a qualified full-time or part-time with interest and experience in: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, or related fields.

Experience with Auto CAD required. Photoshop, and PowerPoint is a plus.

If interested, please send your resume along with examples of work to: vwilson@stanford.edu

Many of you have
already heard about the 3-week summer study program in
Santiago de Compostela, Spain for students of architecture,
landscape architecture, historic preservation, and interior
design, organized by Compostela Institute. This summer the
program will run from July 23 - August 10. International
architects and scholars participating this summer: Alvaro
Siza, David Chipperfield, Juhani Pallasmaa, William JR Curtis,
Peter Eisenman (tbc), Carlos Quintans.The
registration deadline has now been extended until June 30.
Partial scholarships may be available. The program also offers
the possibility to attend for 2 weeks instead of 3 (at a
substantially reduced tuition rate), for those students who
may be working full time or who may simply not have the time
or resources for a 3-week stay.

This is an amazing
opportunity - a chance for students to visit important
examples of ancient and modern architecture and to work with
some of the most distinguished architects and historians in
the world, all while participating in the culturally rich
ambiance of this city - Santiago de Compostela. Please find
enclosed with this letter: Program poster, program
description, and a photograph of students and faculty from
2010, with Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza.*

- Please contact
Tatiana Berger directly to obtain more
information about the program and to request an application
form. Her address: tberger@rwu.edu

- This is a 3-week
program which includes: lectures, seminars, workshops, studio,
dinners with distinguished guest lecturers, walking tours
(sketching), and bus tours to significant sites in Galicia,
Spain and northern Portugal (including the home of David
Chipperfield and office of Alvaro Siza)

- The program is open
to undergraduate and graduate students and to those who have
already graduated. Disciplines: architecture, landscape
architecture, historic preservation, interior design, art.

- Housing is in a
16th-Century monastery building facing a garden (now a student
dormitory) in individual rooms, with a large common kitchen.
Film screenings and communal lunches and dinners are
often held in the monastery building

- The Institute's 30-35
students come from all over the world. Last summer the
program hosted students from RWU, Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley,
Boston Architectural College, and from the following
countries: France, Italy, Germany, Syria, Thailand, Russia,
and Spain. This summer we will host 6 students from
China. This is a wonderful opportunity to get to know other
cultures and form close friendships and
professional connections for a lifetime. Several students
have received job offers in Europe after attending the
program.

- After the
program, many students have taken the opportunity to visit
more architectural works in Porto and Lisbon, Portugal as well
as Madrid, Barcelona, and other Spanish cities. A free
guided tour is offered to 5 buildings by A.Siza in Porto,
Portugal.

- A few partial
scholarships are still available. If you are working this
summer and can only come for 2 weeks, you may be able to
attend at a discounted rate - please contact Tatiana Berger to
request more information.

- Please see the
attached program description (pdf), poster, photo, and the
Compostela website for more details: www.cainstitute.es

We are pleased to announce that Letterbanc (founded
by a CED alum) is, for a limited time, offering College of
Environmental Design students (current and alumni) $400 in
site credit (i.e. a free LetterbancPro membership + 10 free
letter reviews). This service is valuable for students
applying for internships, scholarships, fellowships, grad
school, postdocs, and faculty posts. With Letterbanc, all
students (undergrad and grad) can do the following:

-Request, store, and transmit multiple copies of
letters of recommendations so that students do not have
to constantly ask professors to send out multiple copies
by deadlines. -Have letters of recommendation reviewed for
completeness (e.g. making sure letters have the correct
student's name on them, etc.)-Upload supporting application documents like CVs,
cover letters, personal statements, writing samples,
unofficial transcripts, etc.-Send out completed applications via snail mail, email,
or have documents uploaded with the click of a button-Get matched using Letterbanc's 1.5 billion dollar
scholarship and internship database -Publish an online portfolio of your work and view
analytics on your profile

SPUR is seeking a Development Intern to offer administrative
support, event logistics assistance, and perform other duties as
assigned. This position will require a flexible candidate
comfortable in performing a multitude of tasks. More information
can be found in the link below. Please feel free to pass this
along to other interested parties and/or promising students.

I am writing to update you on
Architecture at Zero 2012, a competition for Zero Net Energy
Architecture. Below are the details of the competition and further
information can be found at www.architectureatzero.com.
We hope that you will pass along this email to interested students and
colleagues.

What: Entrants will submit a detailed design for a Zero
Net Energy campus building as well as a thoughtful schematic energy
strategy for a group of zero net energy campus buildings. Details on
submission requirements and project criteria can be found at www.architectureatzero.com

Where: Following on the heels of last year’s successful Architecture
at Zero 2011 competition that envisioned a zero net energy future for an
urban infill site in Emeryville, CA, this year’s competition will focus
on the next phase of campus planning at the newest University of
California campus, UC Merced.

Timeline:

Competition
opens—April 2012

Site Tour for Entrants—Summer 2012; To Be
Announced

Submissions due—October 1, 2012

Jury & Announcement—October
24, 2012

Winning Entries will be exhibited in November during Greenbuild
International Conference and Expo 2012 in San Francisco, as well as in
other locations. Entry for students is free, and up to $25,000 in prize
money will be awarded to winning entrants, as well as a chance for
recognition in exhibitions and print media. Architecture at Zero 2011
was pleased to award Jihyoon Yoon of Harvard University and Curtis Ryan
from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee for their efforts in Zero Net
Energy Architecture.

I am a co-chair of "Inner Sunset Sundays", an exciting and popular
community-organized 4-event series in San Francisco, scheduled for later
this year. The events will look something like a cross between a street
fair and a block party, but with emphasis on the street space as a
place to gather - a kind of plaza or square. In creating such a
gathering space, we would like to inquire if any Architecture
students/faculty would be interested in helping to design the space as
part of a school project. Hopefully the collaboration would be greatly
beneficial to everybody involved.

I've attached to this email a proposal with full information about
Inner Sunset Sundays as well as a compressed file containing information
and images of public spaces around the world that inspire our current
vision.* Let me know if you would like any more information. I'm also happy to visit and discuss anything with you in person.

Thanks in advance for reading and we look forward to hearing from you.

All the best,

Adam Greenfield

*contact CED Office of Undergraduate Advising for more info about the above mentioned attachments.

We are a small design-build firm working on a 3000 sq. ft
modern house in the foothills above Winters, CA. We need a
computer model generated for the
house and surrounding landscape. Must
have transportation to meet in Davis
or Winters. Pay is $20/hour plus
reimbursement for driving time. Please
email me and include a portfolio of work that shows your computer
rendering
skills. info@chriscorbettdesign.com